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  • How to Identify Brand Loyalists on Your Email List

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    On any email list, there will be three populations: those who love you, those who like you, and those who are just hanging in there. This article focuses on by far the most appealing sector: the people who love you. So how do you figure out who's who? Here are five ways to identify brand loyalists on your email list.

  • 'If You Want This Choice Position…': Seven Virtues of the Perfect Social Media Leader

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    Your social-media manager or director is a critical and strategic hire who will be responsible for formulating and executing your strategy, as well as educating your whole organization and aligning it with that strategy. How can you sift the wheat from the chaff? Here are the seven virtues of a social media leader.

  • How to Avoid Online Advertising's $1 Billion Mistake

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    Although most online campaigns seek to drive conversion-based goals, many still use the click or CTR as the primary metric—mainly because it has been traditionally used to measure success and because it's easy to measure. But that's no excuse for making a mistake that's costing marketers $1 billion a year.

  • Questionnaire Auditing: The Quality-Control Step You Cannot Afford to Skip

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    The value of strong questionnaire design is all too often not fully appreciated in the market research community. But the fact is, you can never fully recover from a poorly written and designed questionnaire—no matter how great you are at data analysis, manipulation, interpretation, and presentation.

  • Wal-Mart, Target Among Top 25 Brands for Women

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    Female consumers are a powerful force that shape how billions of marketing dollars are spent yearly, and among the most important brands for women are Wal-Mart, Target, and eBay, according to the Women at NBCU Brand Power Index, which measures the top 25 brands most important to women.

  • 7 Steps to Letting Locals Find You Online

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    MarketingProfs blogger Dana VanDen Heuvel shares tips for getting your business found easily by locals.

  • Opinions Shared on Social Media Valued

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    Though most Americans prefer to interact with their friends and acquaintances face-to-face, rather than via social media, 60% of adults who use social media say they value the opinions others share on social media sites, and 41% say they feel important when giving feedback about brands, products, and services in the social media space, according to a Harris Poll.

  • Are You Really Marketing or Just Advertising?

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    MarketingProfs Alan Belniak offers insights regarding the differences between true marketing and just advertising products.

  • 21 Tips for Being the Best Boss

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    MarketingProfs blogger Paul Williams describes 21 traits that an excellent boss has---and offers explanations of why they are necessary to be a leader.

  • Brand Campaigns Drive Most Facebook Likes

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    Though search plays an important role in triggering a Facebook user to "like" a brand, fully three in four Facebook fans say they have joined a brand's Facebook page because of a brand invitation or advertising campaign, according to a study by DDB Worldwide and Opinionway Research.

  • Run Your Blog Like a Newspaper

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    MarketingProfs guest blogger Tom Diederich shares tips from his newspaper days to help companies manage successful blogs.

  • Smartphone Election: Which States Own What?

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    The "gadgetoral" votes are in: The great state of California has the highest per capita ownership of iPhones in the US—casting 83 gadgetoral votes in favor of the device—whereas New Jersey has the highest ownership of Androids, according to a survey from Retrevo.

  • 7 Ways to Use Social Media to Boost Holiday Sales

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    MarketingProfs blogger Dana VanDen Heuvel shares tips for boosting sales through social media this holiday season.

  • Turning Thought-Leadership Content Into Cash

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    CONTENT TYPE: Infographic | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    In June, The Wall Street Journal reported a surge in social-media use by law firms interested in connecting with potential class-action plaintiffs. But if you take a closer look, you'll see that many of the approaches used provide viable marketing lessons for businesses of all types.

  • Ownership of Untethered Gadgets Continues to Grow

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    Far beyond the desktop, the digital world has expanded to an array of untethered devices: US consumers' adoption of laptop computers, cell phones, and other mobile gadgets continues to increase, while the ownership of desktop computers is gradually declining, according to Pew Research.

  • 4 Steps to Launching a Successful Twitter Chat

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    MarketingProfs bloggers Steven Woodruff and Lisa Petrilli share the four critical steps they took for launching their successful #LeadershipChat tweet-up party.

  • 14 Ways to Improve Conversion Rates of Online Forms

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    Online Web forms that capture customer data in exchange for content—or another kind of information or service—are often the first point of contact customers have with your business. So, why are they so awful? Or overly ambitious?

  • Bring Your Fans Home: How to Capitalize on Facebook Fatigue

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    Is the buzz around Facebook fading? That is just what a couple of recent studies suggest, so perhaps it's time to bring your fans home—back to your website. Marketers should give serious thought to supplementing their social-media strategies with a strong content-driven website.

  • Digital-Media Terms: How Do You Translate That?

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Writing

    Interactive media platforms are a global phenomenon, occurring in all markets regardless of their level of economic, social, and cultural development. Therefore, when translating content into other languages, it's critical to define terms clearly. But what is the best approach?

  • Video-Based Email Marketing Growing, Despite Challenges

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    Nearly three-quarters of marketers (73%) say integrating video with email marketing increases click-through rates (CTR), and fully one-half are now using video in their email marketing programs, according to a survey from the Web Video Marketing Council.